Long run made possible by my arms and a 10 inch donut!

The most important event of the day: a Cougar Tail. A 10-inch maple bar. Make the trip to Utah just to try one of these.

Let’s rewind to the start of the day:

I slept in Saturday morning so that meant one thing… my long run was on the treadmill and this is me reenacting how tired I was at the end.

Photo credit- Brooke Jacobs.

Somehow I wasn’t bored for the 14 miles… my brain was all over the place. 1st 4 miles @ 7:30 pace and last 10 miles @ 6:27 pace.. average pace 6:45. I didn’t take any breaks during the fast 10 miles but my legs felt pretty tired from the beginning. So I I used my ‘when your legs get tired focus on pumping your arms and your legs will keep up’ trick and it worked for about 64 minutes.

I randomly listened to this old Mariah Carey album for the run. I don’t know why but for some reason it just worked well yesterday.

Somehow Utah got the memo to have perfect November weather for the BYU game.

Our seats came with the tent food before the game and during half-time. I started off with this amazing Mexican salad (tasted better than it looks).

Followed by plenty of desserts. Waffles on a stick + a chocolate fountain = brilliant.

Our seats also came with coupons for the above Cougar Tail. I could get used to going to more football games if they always come with this much food.

Brookers and I went on a date together at night and she wanted to walk around the mall and see all of the new Christmas decorations up! I really hope she never wants to stop holding hands whenever we walk around.

She was convinced that she needed these PJs but I don’t think they will really fit.

Just singing Christmas carols every night and learning how to play them on a mini piano.

And then I was in bed at a good time… the goal for the next two weeks leading up to the race!

I don’t know if the salad or the chocolate fountain looked better, but definitely the fountain!

I go to bed every night between 9 and 10 and that was even the case for this weekend. I had a pretty good 13 mile taper run yesterday, but the best part was going out for pho last night with my family!

I’m usually in bed by 10:30 latest. Weekends are usually different and we stay up so we can watch a movie with out kids.

This weekend hasn’t been great so far. Caught a fly and have been in bed since. My brother in law has his farewell today so I’m hoping that once my body starts to move around it will decide its feeling better.

Grant

10pm is my bedtime basically every night of the week. I’m an old man at heart.

Best part of my weekend was completing my long run yesterday in nice weather… but tomorrow morning it’s supposed to be 42 DEGREES here and I’m freaking out. This is Florida, this isn’t supposed to happen! I need cold weather running tips!

I still really like your white coat. When I first started running several years ago I did all of my runs on treadmills and was fine. But once I switched to outdoor running I now run funky on the treadmill – I’m very aware of what my legs and feet are doing and I can’t stop thinking about it! So I can’t run very long on the treadmill. I think I might go to the gym today and run a short amount on it though so I can add in some other exercise as well. Still trying to recover from knee pain and I’m supposed to start marathon training in 5 weeks so I’m getting pretty nervous. Have a great Sunday!

I like to be in bed by 9PM ~watch a little news~and lights out by 9:35. My ideal would be to wake at 5AM and work out every morning but I have been super lazy since I started back to work in September and every part of my life has suffered.

Megan D

We have some good friends that have extra tickets to the Cougar Club and have invited us to go with them. Once you go Cougar Club, it is really hard to go any other way. #AllTheFood Once we went to a day game and ate all the food and then I tried to run 7miles when we got back home**. Those 7 miles weren’t pretty.

I am usually tired at 2pm, so why I don’t go to bed until 11pm is beyond me. I just don’t make good decisions (**See previous note)

I was able to get in 11.25 miles today at a good pace, however, I am trying to venture with heart rate training, and it is so hard!!!!! I am not the fastest runner, but according to heart rate training, I have to slow my pace dramatically from what I am used to!…

Best part of my weekend was making a pumpkin pie! YUM! Funny thing, I never like pumpkin pie until recently…… weird how taste buds change!

Cheryl

Awe! Brooke is so cute! My daughters are 21 & 18 now and I still remember being so sad when they stopped holding my hand!
Best part of my weekend so far was completing my last qualifying race for automatic entry into the 2016 NYC marathon! So excited hey so very nervous too!

9:30 pm is my “go to” time to be in bed. I’m old! The best part about my weekend so far… my hubs and I got up early this morning to do some Thanksgiving shopping (we’re hosting this year!), and then stopped for a giant bagel with way too much cream cheese. Heaven!!
I love chocolate fountains… but that one’s color looks funky. Was it white chocolate that just looks kinda greenish in the picture? I’m sure it still tasted good. And, can we just take a moment of silence for that maple donut masterpiece??!!!!

Dawn

I would love to go to sleep at 7pm every night. I’m just that tired. But I work till 10pm usually. Every day my work schedule is different so I have no consistency in what time I go to sleep or wake up.

Aaryn

Saddest story of my life: I woke up this morning craving donuts like whoa. I wanted all the maple bars and all the apple fritters. The first thing I said to my boyfriend was, “Can we please get donuts for breakfast?” and he said he had a dream about donuts, so of course this was fate. Right? WRONG! The local donut shop was closed (on a Sunday?!?!), so, keeping calm, I drive to the local grocery store, and they didn’t have any maple bars or apple fritters and my heart was broken. I got a Starbucks coffee and cried sad tears into it. The end.

I hope that was amazing!

Gabriella A.

mad props for the treadmill patience. i get anxiety thinking about it. ill go run in the rain or in the freezing cold (well I’m in texas, freezing to me is 40 degrees lol) anything to avoid the treadmill. 10 miles on it?? fuuuuuuuuu ugh! good job!

i should be in bed now since i wake up early to run. but alas I’m here
and best part of my weekend was probably the 293875239458 pumpkin pancakes i ate because you know running fuel

Jeanette in CA

yeah for you! So happy things are going so well for you right now. You deserve it! I can imagine that looking forward to the game/date helped in finishing off those 14 dreadmill miles. ;) At least it would have for me.
Best part of the weekend: Watching each of my kids play a fabulous game at their last soccer match of the season. Still no running for me. Starting PT this week and waiting to see my Sports MD at the UC hopital.

Best part of my weekend? Friday night was spent at Disneyland and Sunday afternoon we watched Tomorrowland. No running but we did walk from the the Disney plaza to the Toy Story lot, the line was way too long!